related works
Black City : Concerto for violoncello and orchestra Nº 2 / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
vc-solo dulc pf hp sopr(offstage) 2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl 2fg(cfg) 4h 2tpt 2trb-t trb-b tb timp 3perc str
De zieke buur : voor alt en orkest / op tekst van François Pauwels, Jeanne Beyerman-Walraven
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 4334 4331 timp 3perc cel 2hp str
Bij den vijver : for voice with orchestral accompaniment / Sem Dresden; words by Jules Schürmann
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
voice orch
Summer moon : for soprano and orchestra, 1992 / Otto Ketting
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2fl 2ob cl cl(cl-b) 2h hp perc str(6.6.4.4.2.)
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Other authors:
Knehans, Katarina
(Text writer/Librettist)
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans